O design de notícias para tablet e o novo papel do designer

Esta pesquisa traz um panorama do mercado jornalístico para tablet. Classifica as variações de publicações digitais. Mostra os hábitos de leitura em dispositivos móveis e as formas de negócios. Apresenta como o designer se posiciona nesse fluxo de trabalho. Analisa o caso do jornal O Globo, que, com produtos impressos e digitais, proporcionou entrevistas com designers de diversas mídias. Ainda há a análise de O Globo a Mais, revista exclusivamente digital.

Tudo isso é inovação: mediação e criatividade no encontro entre o designer e as artesãs

O objetivo deste trabalho trata-se de explorar o papel do designer quando em relação à contextos de produção artesanal, partindo de pesquisa etnográfica realizada em uma oficina de design, conduzida por Lars Diederichsen, para as artesãs da Cooperativa Lã Pura. Inserida no programa Talentos do Brasil, do Ministério do Desenvolvimento Agrário, a oficina de design tem como propósito a geração de novos produtos para a cooperativa e configura-se como a visita de um designer ao grupo. As bases teóricas para a análise das relações entre o designer e artesãs estão amparadas no conceito de mediação (Velho, 2001; 2003). Ao relacionarem-se esses sujeitos negociam seus projetos, transitam entre diversos domínios e reconstroem as suas realidades e a si mesmos, criando e recriando as suas identidades como mulheres artesãs e como designer, contribuindo para a conceituação do que significa ser mulher artesã e ser designer. Ao mesmo tempo, a ideia de criatividade permeia todo o processo da oficina de design, tendo sido problematizada a partir de Ingold e Hallam (2007) que sugerem os conceitos de inovação e improvisação.

A conceptual client-designer framework: Inspiring the development of inclusive design interactive techniques

The adoption of inclusive design approach into design practice is compatible to the needs of an ageing society. However, tools and methods that promote inclusivity during new product development are scarcely used in industry. This paper is part of a research project that investigates ways to accommodate inclusive design into the design process in industrial context. The present paper is based on the finds from the observations and interviews with industrial designers and interviews with stakeholders. The outcomes from the study supported a better understanding of the client-designer dynamic as well as the stages in the design process where information related to inclusive design could be introduced. The findings were essential to inspire the development of an inclusive design interactive technique to be used by clients and designers. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Control of material transport through pulse shape manipulation-a development toward designer pulses

The variety of laser systems available to industrial laser users is growing and the choice of the correct laser for a material target application is often based on an empirical assessment. Industrial master oscillator power amplifier systems with tuneable temporal pulse shapes have now entered the market, providing enormous pulse parameter flexibility in an already crowded parameter space. In this paper, an approach is developed to design interaction parameters based on observations of material responses. Energy and material transport mechanisms are studied using pulsed digital holography, post process analysis techniques and finite-difference modelling to understand the key response mechanisms for a variety of temporal pulse envelopes incident on a silicon (1/1/1) substrate. The temporal envelope is shown to be the primary control parameter of the source term that determines the subsequent material response and the resulting surface morphology. A double peak energy-bridged temporal pulse shape designed through direct application of holographic imaging data is shown to substantially improve surface quality. © 2014 IEEE.

Neighboring Group-Controlled Hydrolysis: Towards “Designer” Drug Release Biomaterials

To give the first demonstration of neighboring group-controlled drug delivery rates, a series of novel, polymerizable ester drug conjugates was synthesized and fully characterized. The monomers are suitable for copolymerization in biomaterials where control of drug release rate is critical to prophylaxis or obviation of infection. The incorporation of neighboring group moieties differing in nucleophilicity, geometry, and steric bulk in the conjugates allowed the rate of ester hydrolysis, and hence drug liberation, to be rationally and widely controlled. Solutions (2.5 x 10-5 mol dm-3) of ester conjugates of nalidixic acid incorporating pyridyl, amino, and phenyl neighboring groups hydrolyzed according to first-order kinetics, with rate constants between 3.00 ( 0.12 10-5 s -1 (fastest) and 4.50 ( 0.31 10- 6 s-1 (slowest). The hydrolysis was characterized using UV-visible spectroscopy. When copolymerized with poly(methyl methacrylate), free drug was shown to elute from the resulting materials, with the rate of release being controlled by the nature of the conjugate, as in solution. The controlled molecular architecture demonstrated by this system offers an attractive class of drug conjugate for the delivery of drugs from polymeric biomaterials such as bone cements in terms of both sustained, prolonged drug release and minimization of mechanical compromise as a result of release. We consider these results to be the rationale for the development of 'designer' drug release biomaterials, where the rate of required release can be controlled by predetermined molecular architecture.